The Yu Emperor's Eastern Tour to Pay Homage to Jinhua

The earth trembled, and dust billowed on every side.

Through the dust rising into the sky, banner after banner flickered in and out of sight.

Looking up, one saw ranks so dense they seemed to stretch beyond the horizon.

This was the Universal Emperor's procession on his eastern tour.

Though the Yu Dynasty now showed signs of collapse, so long as it had not drawn its final breath, the power it could unleash surpassed anyone's imagination.

As a dynasty of ghosts and gods that had ruled the southeastern Mountain Sea Realm for nearly a hundred thousand years, the Yu Dynasty had amassed arms and resources beyond description, even with mountains of gold and seas of silver.

For this eastern tour, the Universal Emperor had brought not only palace consorts and attendants, officials and nobles, but also a million elite troops loyal to him from the Yu Capital.

Those troops had originally been meant to enter the Netherworld with him and guard him after death. But with the Netherworld now a tangled mess, they instead accompanied him east.

Hundreds of thousands of war chariots and all manner of ceremonial magic artifacts stretched for ten thousand li. At the center of the troops stood a mobile palace a hundred zhang across, drawn by chariots and moving slowly like a small mountain.

Behind it came carriage after carriage bearing ghosts and gods. Threads of incense smoke coiled around them, becoming ghostly divinity that blotted out the sky. The true forms of gods and ghosts flickered within it as they thronged around the palace procession alongside cultivators riding clouds through the air.

The Universal Emperor had assembled such a spectacle not merely to pay homage to Jinhua Mountain, but to intimidate the restless Aristocratic Clans throughout the land.

Faced with the many ghosts, gods,